Spanning across 8000 sq.km, and as part of the Indo-Burmese biodiversity hotspot, the Garo Hills in the state of Meghalaya support an incredibly rich biodiversity. The Garo Hills Elephant Reserve has three protected areas, a reserve forest and five elephant corridors, which together link around...

Initially the project was funded and supported by the Small Wetlands Programme of IUCN – The Netherlands Committee which led us to exploring and initiating our work on Hill Wetlands in the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve. Its 2565 square kilometers were once covered in a mixture of tropical montane...

We began work in Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park in 2006 to try and restore the natural ecology of a large, rocky wasteland next to Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur. It had suffered years of neglect and was overrun by invasive Prosopis juliflora whose seeds had been broadcast from the air in the 1930s....

We have been conducting extensive research on various aspects of hornbill ecology for over two decades in Arunachal Pradesh. The broader vision of this work is to see hornbill conservation and protection of their habitats, integrated into local community institutions, with our technical and...

This project began in early 2022 when NIIT University (NU) invited Pradip Krishen to help them restore a large swathe of village common land adjacent to the campus. The landscape comprises wind-swept sand dunes abutting the eastern face of a slate-ey group of Aravalli Hills. NU had already been...

The restoration of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest, within the township of Auroville has been an evolving process spread over the last 50 years carried out by numerous individuals who have been involved in the work. When the project started in 1968, the areas was a barren, eroded plateau....

Youth for Forest - led by Green Hub team and Green Hub fellows, aims to increase the fragments across the region for restoration through community participation and collaborative action. Currently there are two sites under this project and we hope to increase them over the years. The site in...

Youth for Forest - led by Green Hub team and Green Hub fellows, aims to increase the fragments across the region for restoration through community participation and collaborative action. Currently there are two sites under this project and we hope to increase them over the years. The effort...

The Aravali Biodiversity Park is 392 acres of wilderness carved out of a 40-year-old mining site in the millennium city of Gurugram. It was named as the first OECM (Other Effective area based Conservation Measure) in India under IUCN. The project started with a joint venture between the...

Kishan Bagh is a restored set of sand dunes that had collected at the base of a hill. The objective was to plant it up with grasses and shrubs in order to achieve the look and feel of a 'Roee' habitat, which is what you find out in the Thar Desert near Jaisalmer. We also wanted to lead visitors...